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Sorry for the delayed response Andy. Today was delivery day for the new students Spoon Project and my Term 2'ers UFO Project.

Uhhh... I'm having some trouble remembering what you are talking about. I know we did some 2D tracking on that one in AE. Did we also Boujou that?

If what you want to do is straighten (rotate, pan, or zoom...) the footage, I recommend doing it last, once everything has been Comp'ed. You have to be careful with any modifications to your shot that might mess with the 3D Track. As long as you leave it until the end you'll be OK. (That way the plate and the elements are all moved as one.)

If that's not what you're asking try to give me a few more details and I'll try to suggest something else.

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In that case, you'll need two track points if you want to stabilize the rotation.

Are you guys still using After Effects? I always applied my track data to a Null and then parented the layers that needed the data applied directly to the null...

If I was using Nuke I'd have a Tracker set to Stabilize with two track points. One Track point would be set to analyze translation and rotation and the other solely for removing rotation. (BTW: Nuke has an awesome Tracker!)

Once the rotation and the translation are stabilized you can then simply adjust the overall rotation of the footage.

Asides from you posting up a proxy of the footage then I think this is as far as I can go with this one. Without seeing the footage it's a bit tricky to guess what you need to do.

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